I Little Bored!!!!!!!!

With all this rain and no fishing, decided to tie some flies up. Just random flies- surf perch, striped bass, lingcod, bottomfish and some salmon flies.

That's a sweet spread.  I love tarding out on shrimp flies and jigs on unfishable winter days.  Glad to see I'm not the only one.

These are some of my favorites drift fished or under a bobber for steelhead.


-Mark-

Do you have any good examples of flounder jigs that you use and tie?

Combat Vet-I would go with some clousers in sizes 2 and 4's -dark green over white, brown over white. Pink, brown,olive and black wooley buggers in sizes 4 and 2's. Marine worms made with ultra chenille and some small lead eyes.

You're and artist - both of you.  But how do you use a fly rod for surf perch?

Tinker- surf perch from shore use a 8wt. rod. Sink-tip or a full sinking line 3ft. 8lb. test leader can use straight mono. Flies-size 8-1/0 heavy weighted or bead chain or lead eyes. Simple shrimp patterns, mole crab patterns, small bait fish patterns. Reds, yellow and orange for colours. Go to your favorite beach cast 4 or 5 times move down 20 ft. and repeat. You don't need to wade more than calf deep. If you can find mole crabs in the sand or seals in the surf  you'll find perch and starry flounder. Cast and strip back in. From a kayak look for structures or schools of fish on your fishfinder anchor above.

I've never seen anyone using a fly rod for surf fishing and it shocked me.  Using spinning rigs, we often need 3 to 6oz of lead and when I read that you were tying surf perch flies, my brain did a back-flip.
 
Thanks!  I learn something new every day.  I'll put this to good use one of these days when I have an 8wt...

I usually fish the in coming tide. There are a couple of beaches here that fish good on a out going tide.Get a nice calm day and the fish will be in ankle to calf high water eating food. On really rough days they go out past the breakers and hide. Just remember they are all ways on the move, so you have to move till you find them and once you do figure out which way the school is moving and keep up with them. The people in southern Calif. use 5 and 6 wt. rods but up here on the Oregon and Washington coast you have to deal with something called the WIND, so an 8wt. is the best choice to punch through the wind.

Mark, these are even better under a bobber

Mark, these are even better under a bobber

Nice!  I especially like your clusters of individual eggs.

-Mark-

Mark, these are even better under a bobber

I already said you guys are artists... now you're just showing off.  Those egg clusters are nice!  And those shrimp?  Wow!

- Kevin

Mark, these are even better under a bobber

Those look awesome, Scott!

Nice! Those look great. Looking forward to some pics from the fish you catch.

Very cool you guys. I'd like to try pink fin on a fly. We should get together when they're in. Should be soon. I'm gonna tie a few more Clouser's w/ trailing hooks soon. Here's loud mouth shrimp flies I did lately, pardon the technical missteps.


Crazy Charlie bonefish modification.

Nice ones Paul. The striped perch are coming into the bay now. Caught a couple of them in Sunset Bay Thursday. The outside was rough so just fish on the inside. started out for blacks and the perch where coming up and following the fly, changed over to a smaller pattern and caught 2 right off the bat. The wind kick up and the bite shut down. I think the pink fin run in Winchester Bay starts about May and is full swing by June. They're in the surf right now.